2.8M views · 3.4K reactions | Ken Block & Ford Escort RS Cosworth | Rallye-Magazin | Facebook

6K views · 2.7K reactions | The Ford Escort RS 1600 BDA is a true rally icon of the 1970s. Built for competition and powered by the legendary Cosworth BDA engine, it combined agility, precision, and relentless power. From forest stages to tarmac sprints, the RS 1600 defined an era of raw, mechanical motorsport and fearless driving. A legend that still echoes through the sound of its engine. | Pias Classic Car Beauties | Facebook

The Escort Cosworth is a legendary road and rally car, built as a homlogation special and available as a road car from 1992, and made it's WRC debut in 1993, but did you know it actually did it's first rally in 1990, two years before it even went on sale!?! Back in 1990 Ford entered a prototype in to a Spanish rally to test it, and in to another in Scotland in 1992 before it was homologated, and both times it kicked ass. Check out this awesome footage, and also look at the other cars in the Span